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[GM note: This is largely a maintenance move so that folks can continue threads from Move 21 without having to dig through a lot of comments.]

For easy reference:
- Move 21 recap (thanks to [personal profile] zuhrovet) [wiki]
- the escape plan [wiki]
- Station Moongray Timeline [wiki]

Year 361, Month Three, Day Seventeen (Monday), ~07:90

Confrontation with the baby fox
From this thread:
Sulen moves towards Mikodez, eyes gleaming the brassy color of clock gears. "I think it's time for some truth, Mikodez."

On the Wasp, Ashari (NPC) welcomes the arrival of Sulen, who threatens Mikodez with scrying after Mikodez is recalcitrant about answering Sasha's questions about why he didn't call for help for Istradez (NPC). Iawa is on standby in case Mikodez needs to be sedated again.

The disposition of a magistrate-thief
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“‘Belong’ would be an overstatement,” Virmad says, concealing his amusement. “But yes, we did — I was just about to check on him [Gerae].”

He inclines his head to Sulen. “I’ll see you later; good luck with the foxling.”

Then, to Alaric: “Has Gerae had any food? I did tell him before I left that I’d make sure he got something to eat.”

"It looked like someone fed him, yes," Alaric replies, "although I don't know about Fluffy. Dragon snacks might make the conversation go smoother."

Alaric has just informed Virmad as to Gerae's status, and is about to hand Gerae over to Virmad's care. Meanwhile, Yehan (NPC) comes to talk to Alaric about mothling care: she reports that the station is having the remaining mothlings delivered to the Bumblebee and they are due any moment.

Sasha fails her save against asking questions

Date: 2018-07-18 07:32 pm (UTC)
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
"Why didn't you report that Istradez was hurt, Mishka?" Sasha asks. It's stupid to call attention to herself when Ashari's in this state, but she hates it when people ignore her questions.
pengwern: Ninefox Smiling (^U^)
From: [personal profile] pengwern
Mikodez is still feeling woozy, but he should probably confess before Ashari decides to do what they already have, and enthrall him for real. With a blindingly sincere smile that squinches his eyes to slits*, he says, "Oh, that. Because I was. Trying to murder him!"

Using his best (rapid) public announcement voice, he turns to Sulen, radiating truthfulness. "You see, he reminded me of a school rival of mine, who I wanted to one-up, so I tried shooting him with a pattern from the matter printer that Sasha lent me. When afterwards it turns out he'd hit his head, I took him to the visitor quarters to rest, and monitor, just in case he turned out to be an alien from foreign parts who would eat my face." In the same breath, he asks Sulen, "Are you planning on letting the moths stay in the heptarchate?" The ninefox signifier around him sits, patient except for a spiraling crown of eyes.

[*see icon.
Random question: Are there any names for the He*archate that makes it ambiguous about how many factions there are? Like "our beloved and wonderful space empire" type addresses.]
Edited Date: 2018-07-21 12:02 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
"He didn't have any ammunition," Sasha points out. "So he's either lying or mind-numbingly incompetent."
pengwern: Ninefox Smiling (^U^)
From: [personal profile] pengwern
“Yes.” Mikodez adds, clarifying, “Then I yelled at him until he fell over.”
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
"He printed a 343-model pistol, and the ammunition was on the drone that got stuck on a slime mold outside the station," Sasha explains to Ashari. "When did Istradez tell you he was your brother, Mishka?"
venndaai: a cropped photo of a wolf's orange eye. (wolf)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
"He's lying," Sulen says. "Didn't you learn in school not to lie to Rahal, Mikodez?"
From: [personal profile] pengwern
"I'm great at arranging placemats." Mikodez relaxes into better posture and looks up at Ashari. They all appear to have swallowed his truth for lies, even with Sulen's scrying. He should be able to maintain it under enthrallment.

[To clarify, I mean for what he said up there to be 'barely technically within-sight-of-the-shoreline of truth'. And ENTHRALLMENT TIME I do have some questions about how it might work here! Tseya clearly intended for it to work on Jedao, so does it always work against heretics/foreigners who would not view Andan as legitimate social superiors? Though I'm fine with...Mikodez buckling like withered straw, since it would be entertaining for him to offer an alliance against grown up Hexarch Mikodez (as he's the only person Miki can really backstab right here and now).
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
Sasha doesn't like the idea of taking Mishka's mind apart, but they all need to know what sort of threat he poses. (She's lucky that those threats don't include special unarmed-combat training. Sasha would have made a fucking awful hostage.) She has the uneasy sense that Ashari has been comparatively restrained, with her. But then, for all their posturing, Ashari has very good control.
Edited (trying to fix the word-wrap) Date: 2018-07-22 04:06 pm (UTC)
vass: Purple Iawa (OC from The Intolerable Clock) (Iawa (purple background))
From: [personal profile] vass
Iawa is trying to watch everyone in the room at the same time, while also scoping out the exits (none apparent) and look as inconspicuous as she can.

Inside, she is thinking at herself "WHEN will you LEARN that you are never, ever right about a situation?"

Re: observations

Date: 2018-07-23 11:42 pm (UTC)
vass: Purple Iawa (OC from The Intolerable Clock) (Iawa (purple background))
From: [personal profile] vass
Iawa is used to Ashari's toying with their dagger, and knows they're not going to accidentally throw or drop it, and hasn't seen them maliciously or negligently throw or drop it either, so she's not unduly concerned by that [high INT low WIS low ability to read people!]. On the other hand, playing with a weapon when you're about to enthrall someone -- and Iawa has seen the Andan Threat Display in the wild before -- seems like asking for trouble, especially when that person is a Shuos.

"Um, Ashari?" she says nervously, this time being careful not to obscure their sight line or to get between them and Avrayen/Mishka/Mikodez/whatever the fox's name is, "I... someone once told me not to handle a weapon near someone who can grab it when you're about to do something they don't want you to?"

She tastes bile in the back of her throat. Reflux, not vomit, she tells herself. It's fine. You shouldn't have eaten right before... watching Sasha to prevent her from torturing Avrayan... and then offering Ashari Vidona advice on how to safely threaten someone with enthrallment...

She swallows surreptitiously. He tried to murder Imsayed. Ashari is going to ask him questions under enthrallment. If they go too far, I'll step in then. It's not torture. Not yet. And none of this would be improved by allowing an attempted murderer access to a knife in a confined space!

minor heresies

Date: 2018-07-24 01:38 am (UTC)
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
Well, fuck. Ashari's got a clear path, if they want to throw that dagger at Iawa. Or, if Iawa's luck is good, just miss. It's probably not poisoned.

Sasha has a feeling that her luck is better than Iawa's. She could likely get Ashari to throw the dagger at her, instead, but that seems... not ideal. Not hitting the medic with a possibly poisoned dagger would be a universally more fortunate outcome, though?

Inside her head, Sasha recites:

The woman took her snowshoes, and walked north. She found nothing.

She walked west, and found nothing.

She walked south, and found two marmots. She singed off their fur, and ate them.

She walked east and found the tracks of a person who was also a wolf...

~Super Andan beams are gonna find me~

Date: 2018-07-24 02:24 am (UTC)
pengwern: (Devious fox! mark 2)
From: [personal profile] pengwern
"Uh, Iawa? You should be afraid of the person with the weapons, who is not going to be me. I am minded to be extremely cooperative." Mikodez plops his chin in his hands. "Just not with Sasha, because that wasn't any fun."

[Browbeating is like...Miles on every step towards committing high treason? Or does it come across the same way as formation effect - an instantaneous switch as opposed to slow erosion?]
Edited Date: 2018-07-24 02:26 am (UTC)

Re: ~Super Andan beams are gonna find me~

Date: 2018-07-24 03:22 am (UTC)
venndaai: (ashari)
From: [personal profile] venndaai
Sulen crosses the room to stand next to Ashari. If there's one thing a wolf can do it's back up a pack member.

Re: ~Super Andan beams are gonna find me~

Date: 2018-07-24 03:28 am (UTC)
vass: Purple Iawa (OC from The Intolerable Clock) (Iawa (purple background))
From: [personal profile] vass
[I see what you did there!]

"That's good," Iawa says, in her best borrowed-from-father's-magistrate-dramas calm hostage negotiation voice, i.e. not very good. "I think everyone here wants to listen and understand, Avrayen."
Edited Date: 2018-07-24 03:35 am (UTC)

sounds fake but ok

Date: 2018-07-24 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] pengwern
Mikodez's shoulders twitch, like he wants to look away from Ashari. "I'm sure that's not what Sasha is here for."

[aw :< it's /blind/ me which is even better, and I keep adding 'the' where they don't belong.]

the joys of mutual understanding

Date: 2018-07-24 12:34 pm (UTC)
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)
From: [personal profile] zuhrovet
"How did you come to join the rebellion, Mishka?" Sasha asks, in a tone of mild inquiry.

Ashari doesn't seem to be paying attention to Iawa, particularly, but Sasha's always found it hard to let go of a story once it's started, so in the back of her mind she continues: She walked east and the ground rose beneath her; she walked east, into the hills.

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Re: ~Super Andan beams are gonna find me~

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pengwern: (what [...] eyes you have)
From: [personal profile] pengwern
[ :(
I'm fine with either, if you could just describe what Ashari expects to happen at each stage!]

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